Where the 1670.2 rating comes from
From 234 matches played between 1 January 1990 and 31 August 1998, 224 of them rated, and from them alone. Every line below was written at computation time: nothing is recomputed to show this page.
How to read this
On the right: the change this match produced, then the value before → after. A line's arrival value is the next line's starting value, down to the starting rating given to every newcomer. A ±0.0 is a counted match that did not move the rating, a walkover for instance.
234 matches, from the most recent to the first
beaten by Nathalie Dechy 0–2
31/08/98 · WTA Grand Slam 1998 · First round · detail
−17.31687.5 → 1670.2
beaten by Naoko Sawamatsu 1–2
22/06/98 · WTA Grand Slam 1998 · First round · detail
−14.21724.0 → 1709.8
beaten by Alexandra Fusai 0–2
25/05/98 · WTA Grand Slam 1998 · First round · detail
−16.41740.4 → 1724.0
beat Mary Pierce 2–1
11/05/98 · WTA 1000 1998 · Second round · retirement · detail
±0.01735.6 → 1735.6
beaten by Monica Seles 1–1
30/03/98 · WTA 1000 1998 · Second round · retirement · detail
±0.01750.9 → 1750.9
beaten by Amanda Coetzer 0–2
19/01/98 · WTA Grand Slam 1998 · First round · detail
−8.41782.2 → 1773.8
beaten by Asa Svensson 0–1
30/12/97 · WTA 1000 1997 · Second round · retirement · detail
±0.01769.9 → 1769.9
beaten by Brenda Schultz-McCarthy 0–2
27/10/97 · WTA 1000 1997 · First round · detail
−13.21783.1 → 1769.9
beaten by Magdalena Grzybowska 0–2
22/09/97 · WTA 1000 1997 · Second round · detail
−20.21784.2 → 1764.0
beaten by Joannette Kruger 1–2
25/08/97 · WTA Grand Slam 1997 · First round · detail
−16.51794.4 → 1778.0
Only the matches the source publishes appear; what is missing is listed. The source gives the day, not the hour: two matches on the same day are ordered by a reproducible rule, which is not necessarily the real order.